Moderate Shielding (Melee Trait)
Hits against non-allied living targets grants you shield for 3.75% of you max HP, stacking up to 5 times. Trait must be applied in a Makeshift Megalab
Details
- Category
- Armor
- Games
- ASA
- Expansion
- Wasteland
- Recipe
- 1 ingredient
- Loot crates
- 4 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- DLC Variant (Non-Base)
Maps
Found on 1 map
How to craft Moderate Shielding (Melee Trait)
Moderate Shielding (Melee Trait) is crafted from 1 ingredient. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 15 seconds.
Ingredients
For one craft
How to get Moderate Shielding (Melee Trait)
Moderate Shielding (Melee Trait) is found in 4 loot crates.
Loot crates
4 crates
- Armadoggo CrateExtinction and Astraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital MediumAstraeos · ASA
- Extinction Orbital MediumExtinction · ASA
Moderate Shielding (Melee Trait) — Detailed Guide
A shield that builds with each hit
Moderate Shielding (Melee Trait) is a trait item in ARK: Survival Ascended. According to its in-game description, hits against living targets that are not allies grant you a shield worth 3.75% of your max HP, and this effect can stack up to 5 times. The in-game description adds that the trait must be applied in a 
Makeshift Megalab. Our records tie it to the Wasteland DLC.
Its recipe and what it goes into
Making one takes 10 
Lesser Shielding (Melee Trait) and 15 seconds, and each craft yields one trait. In turn, 
Greater Shielding (Melee Trait) uses 10 Moderate Shielding traits; that is the one recipe in our records that calls for this item. The trait stacks to 1.
Crates and maps
Our records count 4 crate types that can contain it: the Extinction Orbital Medium crate, the Astraeos Orbital Medium and Astraeos Orbital Legendary crates, and the Armadoggo Crate, which our records list for Extinction and Astraeos. Those two maps are also where our database places the trait itself.